Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. All things have a home: the bird has a nest, the fox has a hole, the bee has a hive. A soul without prayer is a soul without a home.

All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.

Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.

In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender